Costa Mesa’s bridge of sighs

Every time it comes up, and I’ve lived in Costa Mesa for 16 years

now, it’s the final time. It’s going to be deleted from the county

plan; it’s going to go away. People don’t want it. People don’t want

it to destroy more wetlands and then, all the sudden, it turns out

... it comes back. So I think it’s time to finally remove it from the

county plan and find another issue in Costa Mesa.

SHARON BOUDREAU

Costa Mesa

The issue of a bridge on West 19th Street has been raised several

times over the last 15 years. Each time the vast majority of Westside

Costa Mesa residents have expressed their strong disapproval of a

bridge. To use Costa Mesa city money on yet another study of the

bridge would be foolish. The bridge will not be built.

RICHARD ROBERTSON

Costa Mesa

I read with interest your story on the Westside bridge, and Robert

Graham is at it again. That’s his whole life’s work, trying to get

that bridge in. We’ve beaten this subject to death. Many studies have

been made, and people, particularly in Huntington Beach and Costa

Mesa, have indicated they don’t want the bridge, and I think, really,

Robert Graham doesn’t belong on that committee. There’s so many

things to be looked at and done, and he keeps on bringing this bridge

up. What a waste of time.

JOHN PENNINO

Costa Mesa

We definitely are not in favor of any more studies about that

bridge. We’ve spent enough money on that already, and it’s not

needed. I wish Graham would not worry about his own interest at heart

and do the city streets and things that we need to have done.

WILMA BOUK

Costa Mesa

Absolutely not. We should not waste one more dollar on beating

this horse to death. We’ve found over the years, the only people who

want that bridge are the people who think they can make a profit on

businesses on 19th Street and the people who want to cut through to

Huntington Beach. We are tired of being a cut-through for Huntington

Beach and Westminster off the Costa Mesa Freeway. You can’t get

anywhere off of Victoria or Adams because of the traffic during rush

hour. You have to stop and wait for them to whip through there at 90

miles per hour. We don’t need another street in Costa Mesa with total

road rage.

Those streets are already ruined. We don’t even need to ruin a

third one. I hope, after all these decades of fighting this, somebody

at the City Council continues with Gary Monahan to stand up against

this.

NANCY NUNAN

Costa Mesa

I don’t want that. We have Pacific Coast Highway; we have

Victoria, and we have Adams bridges, and those are all within a mile

radius of each other; we certainly don’t need another bridge over

there. I think they can invest the money better repairing the

streets, getting rid of the parked cars on the streets, being able

for the street sweeper to come through and sweep the streets. We have

many parked cars on the sidewalk that never get moved, and police

don’t even enforce that. We don’t need another bridge. Spend the

money in other ways.

CHRIS STEWARD

Costa Mesa